Flight was pretty normal. Everyone with us was trying to talk to Chinese-looking fellow travelers the whole trip. Funny thing is the most promising guy was an Indian who came up to us. Trip to San Francisco we had a lot of space. it was about half booked I'd guess. But the trip to Hong Kong and then to Gaoxiong were all filled. The trip to hong kong was kinda lame, didn't sleep, couldn't study, and it was cramped. When we landed I thought the houses looked like lego blocks, because it seems like if someone feels like it, they just build another story on their house right on top of their house. different colors also. The mission office is in a huge and tall building, it has a great view of the city. We did orientation stuff and applied for some card we need to live here. the next day we met our companion and traveled to our area. Mine is Elder Shober. Our area is on the northeren edge of the Gaoxiong mission. It's called Jiayi. I bought me a bike, and then we went to the church and spraypainted it to make it look uglier, and to cover the brand name, because apparently people would like to steal my bike.
I've already met a bunch of our investigators and less active members. It's amazing to see the changes the gospel is able to make in people's lives. We visited an investigator to share about the word of wisdom, but apparently during the visit 4 days eariler with the old companionship it was briefly mentioned. He told us that he had smoked 2 packs a day for 20 years or so and hasn't had a smoke in the last 4 days, which is pretty amazing, but I bet after a while here I'll see that happen a bunch more times.
I'm understanding more and more each day. Telephone calls are still very hard, especially since all the static and cut outs.
1st Sacrament meeting: First off, Elders aren't allowed to contact Females in our mission, and the reason is because "there are too many female members". I didn't really believe that till I went to sacrament meeting. There are very few men, and a bunch of ladies. (Probably 4 to 1 ratio) Kareoke has ruined Taiwan people's ability to sing. >.>
Right now we have a few progressing invertigators, including that quit smoking guy and this other guy who will get baptised but wants to tell his parents first, just to be safe.
I was quite suprised at the amount of Mo-peds. Everyone has them. And people fit whole families on them too. I always see a mom driving with a kid on the back and another kid standing in front of the mom. Sometimes I see pets and stuff on them also. Some times I see people hauling what seems like it's their entire lively hood on their little mopeds.
Also, there are basically no driving rules, heh.
We usually contact people at stop lights. It was suprising that most people actually talk to us at stop lights, we ask them where they're going and there name and they actually tell us!
It's really hot here. I think my favorite time of the day is at night when we sleep. Our Bedroom has a AC and it's so nice. I take a shower and dry myself off, but since it's so hot and humid, I feel like I'm still wet. It's hard to even put on clothes I'm so sticky.
Today is Prep Day. Wendsday my time. We use email at about...now. I'll try to send some pictures maybe. Tonight we teach english for 90 minutes. We teach straight english for 60 minutes then transition into a gospel lesson, pretty smooth. It should be fun.
Food's pretty normal I'd say. American Chinese food is totally different. A lot of the time I cook dumplings, or we go out to get a box lunch. Lunch is usually about 40 quai. or about $1.40. Pretty cheap, but sometimes it costs more, depending on where we go.
Well, we have an hour here to write email.
I'll try to send a picture if i can, any questions real quick?
It's hot, humid, smoggy, but really fun and interesting.
Elder Pack (Cao)
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